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I'm eternally grateful that the social media network that I was part of throughout my teenage years abruptly disappeared from the internet, never to come back again.

Some say it was a technical failure during migration when the company was trying to pivot to file hosting, but it's impossible to verify.

Perhaps these bans are a blessing in disguise and future generations will be happy to not have their most awkward stage of life available forever, to everyone, in detail.

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Are you referring to MySpace?

My highschool band had tracks and videos of live performances in the school hall on there that is forever lost and I'm still bitter about it.

How is MySpace even comparable to today's social media? AFAIK MySpace wasn't agoritmycally driven to keep you addicted like TikTok or Instagram do. MySpace was just you and your friends from school competing on whose page is the tackiest.

Yes, very different. A good example of we should not lump all platforms together.

I am not referring to MySpace. It was a local-to-my-country social network which was outcompeted by another local-to-my-country social network, which in turn gave way to Facebook.

I was aware of the existence of MySpace at the time, but it never had mainstream adoption locally. We also had not one but two mainstream messaging apps and hardly anyone was using MSN.

Come to think of it, Facebook killed a lot of that homegrown tech.

Early Facebook was inferior to local social networks in many ways. The real killer feature was convincing people to de-anonymize themselves on the internet.

Early facebook you weren’t really de anonymized like we consider today. For the simple fact that literally everyone you were friends with on that site were people you knew in real life. Yes you were “on the internet” but in this hyperlocal silo of real life connections entirely removed from the greater whole.

That is until they opened the site to boomers and then advertisers chasing their money.

how is that a feature?

My guess: grono.net :)

Yeah because soup.io (Blogspam Link today) simply lost its data because they didn't migrate and the hard drive crashed.

That's what killed them? I thought it was just financially unsustainable.

Platform was dying for years before it was finally financially interoperable, before that they've lost over a year worth of contents due to some corrupted hardware. I can't exactly remember for sure that this happened during a migration, but the corruption of the main database was the main cause to lose that data.

In the end, there was just not enough money to justify keeping it alive.

Yeah...

Nasza-klasa of course had its moments, but the flavour of cringe grono enabled was truly unique.

All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

Unless of course you specifically know a guy who knows a guy. Otherwise I think we're safe.

How is that MySpace’s fault?

Who uploaded the videos then deleted the originals.

My 15 year old bandmate who had no understanding of data redundancy or the 1-2-3 backup method, back in 2005.

I'm not blaming anyone here.

A couple of decades ago, a politically active family I knew was grooming their child to be a future Prime Minister. While the poor kid had amazing privilege that other kids could only dream of, one strict rule was no Facebook or similar. Not even appearing on friends feeds (friends in a similar social strata, so workable). They could see that nobody would be getting elected to positions of power with such a documented past. Now days you of course hire someone to maintain a fake profile.

> technical failure during migration

Showing my age when the first thing that came to mind was ' but ma.gnolia was more of a social bookmarking...'

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